IRISH CATHOLIC GENESIS 
OF LOWELL: 



By George F. O'Dwyer 



PRINTED BY 

SULLIVAN BROTHERS 

LOWELL, MASS. 

1920 



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Joseph I. C. Clarke 



May twenty-ninth 
Nineteen twenty 



Dear Mr. O'Dwyer: 



I am much interested in your under- 
taking to publish locally your monograph: 
"The Irish Genesis of Lowell Mass. a centenary," 
and hope it will have a generous circulation. 
I desire a personal copy and one for the 
library of the American Irish Historical 
Society, and shall have pleasure in commending 
it to our members. Research such as yours in 
this case is admirable and should be rewarded 
by being widely read. It is such a service 
to the record of the race for which our 
Society exists, so well expressed in the motto 
of our charter, "To make better known the 
Irish Chapter in American History." 

Yours faithfully, 
(Signed) JOSEPH I. C. CLARKE 

President-General, 
American Irish Historical Society. 



THE IRISH CATHOLIC GENESIS 
OF LOWELL: 



In the early years of the 19th century, Irish emigrants arriving at the 
ports of Boston, New York, and even Quebec, were largely attracted by the 
building of the New England manufacturing towns, especially the towns along 
the Merrimack river in northeastern Massachusetts. These emigrants toiled 
side by side with the "native" builders of the mills and canals, and dug 
water-ways which, later, turned the wheels of the big cotton mills and ma- 
chine shops. As the new industries drew thousands of employes, boarding- 
houses and homes were erected and Irish laborers used their brain and brawn 
in their construction. In the space of a few years, Lowell became famous 
internationally, and the most distinguished men and women of world promi- 
nence paid it a visit and marveled at its achievements. 

Irish Catholic labor and enterprise was a strong contributing factor in 
the making of the embryonic settlement on the banks of the Merrimack. In 
April, 1822, the first thirty laborers walked over the road from Charlestown — 
it was a 25-mile jaunt — to widen and build arteries from the old Pawtucket 
canal which, up to that time, was used to transport lumber and freight boats 
from New Hampshire to the sea. In a few years, the original thirty pioneers 
were augmented to hundreds, mostly from the counties of Cork and Dublin, 
and they pitched their camps on the Frye land, afterwards known as the 
"Paddy Camp lands." In 1831, Kirk Boott, a broad-minded Englishman, 
the agent and general manager of the largest mill and power company in the 
town, at the suggestion of an Irishwoman in his household, gave a lot of land 
to Bishop Fenwick of Boston for the erection of a Catholic church. The 
foundation of this church was built by some of the same men who came into 
the undeveloped town in 1822, and the church itself — a wooden structure — 
was started in the summer of 1830. It was dedicated July 3, 1831. 

In consequence of this unexampled progress of the Irish laborers, the 
latent bigotry of certain "native" malcontents was aroused. The Irish 
laborers and mill employes, in their impulsive enthusiasm at the success of 
their advent in the town, soon found that this natural enthusiasm was fo- 
menting antipathy among a certain element who worked with them, and this, 
from time to time, was vented in personal squabbles and later, street fights, 
in which the men from the Emerald Isle came out best. As a result, a 
riot was precipitated in Lowell on May 18, 1831. An account of it was print- 
ed in the Boston "Patriot" for May 21, 1831, and was as follows: 

"A letter to the editor of the "Transcript [Boston] states that a battle 

was fought in that town [Lowell] last Tuesday evening between a por- 



tion of the frish population and aboul 200 Yankees. The cause is said 
to 1)0 trilling, though not stated. Three hundred persons were assem- 

ibouf nine o'clock and stones and brickbats were file. Several 
were made on the frish camps by the assailants which discon- 
tinued after midnight. On Wednesday evening, the Yankees began to 
re-assemble, but one of the ring-leaders was arrested by the consta- 

ud taken into Merrimack street; here, the mob rescued him and 
the rioters soon after dispersed. Three persons, named Brown, Willey, 
and Smallcorn were arrested and committed for trial in default of 

Tin- "battle'' or riot, was later known as the "Battle of the Stone 

Bridge." and was largely started by liberal potions of Niew England rum 

which, combined with the antipathy of the "native" mob, made them start 

on their ill-advised raid. Among the leaders of this mob, the original in- 

>n was to wreck the "Acre," and drive its Irish inhabitants from their 

: cabins. This bigotry was fomented during the summer of L830, 

when Irish carpenters and bricklayers started to build the first Catholic 

church on land on the "Acre."' The building of this wooden church and 

dation aroused the bigotry of the ignorant part of the native popula- 

\ ho. up to thai time, had ridiculed the Irish on the "Acre" as if they 

were clowns or barbarians according to the limited lights of their prejudiced 

minds. When they saw the spire of the pretty little wooden church pointing 

nward, their discontent was pronounced, and the bar-rooms, where 

they were wont to hang out, were filled with their rum-inspired plans of devil- 

-i the little settlement in the "suburbs." as the Baddy Camp lands 

then designated. 

Things were broughl to a head on the nighl of May 18th, when a band 
bigots gathered in a pre-arranged bailiwick on lower Lowell street 
i now - Market) and devised ways and means to clean oil! the "Acre" and burn 
up the new Catholic church, which, at that time, was being given its finishing 
touch ihe dedication, set for the summer following. The ring- 

leaders of the band were Samuel Brown, Ivory Willey and Robert Smolcoon, 
II of Lowell and, '"! gother with divers other disorderly and evil disposed 
ms." were held later for the Grand Jury. The charge was riot and as- 
inll at Lowell, May In. L831. All were later found guilty and imprisoned in 
i onnnon gaol. 

In one of these brewing-places of the contemplated deviltry, on this 

cning. an Irish laborer was drinking his mug of ale after his 

While enjoying this mug, he overheard two natives making 

"a clean-oul of I lie Baddy settlement and some fireworks on their 

e. " Instantly, his native intuition was at work. While the 

alking, he slipped out the back entrance to the saloon, and 

ad ran up to the "Acre," and aroused some of his acquaintances and 

•ath. Soon Ihe news of the contemplated attack on 

icir bailiwicks had spread all over the Irish camps, and the men of Cork 

I Dublin and tl ther counties in Ireland who were represented, seized 

hillelal 'agerh heartened each other in their Irish language, 

which inmonlv spoken anions; them all. 



The women of the settlement, however, had been warned in advance of 
the contemplated raid of the bigots. That afternoon they gathered up 
every available stone and brickbal in the neighborhood. They rallied, as 
did the women of Limerick of old, aroused by the impending danger to their 
new church and their soggarth. That night, when vigilant scouts gave warn- 
ing of the approach of the bigots from the village, they hastily gathered up 
the stones and bricks in their big, wide aprons, and, with this improvised am- 
munition, they followed their husbands, and their brothers, and their sons, 
to the bushes along the present Suffolk canal and posted themselves, awaiting 
the coming of the rum-fired bigots. Finally the horde appeared at the bend 
opposite the old Mann school. At the sight of the crowd, the Irish girls and 
women stationed themselves behind the men, who were hid in the darkness 
and bushes, and who had their hands full of stone ammunition from the 
aprons of the women. 

The horde of bigots suddenly made a rush for the Stone bridge. As 
suddenly, a volley of stones ami bricks struck them from the shores of the 
"Acre." Four men went down as a result of the well-aimed Irish attack. 
Amazed at the sudden checking of their plans, the native invaders of the baili- 
wicks of the Irish withdrew their forces to a point near what is now the Vo- 
cational school, and debated a minute. They decided to make another rush 
for the bridge. But the Irish forces from Cork and Dublin streets were well- 
poised for the attack. Just as soon as the vanguard reached the bridge, the 
second volley of stones struck down the advance and the bigots retired back 
again in disorder. At this, the Irish girls and women, inspired by the success 
of their male defenders, rushed from their places of concealment and, with 
good aim, let fly the reserve ammunition in their aprons at the discomfited 
bigots in disarray on the Stone bridge. This new source of attack completely 
disorganized the befuddled horde on the bridge. First, one or two started to 
run back to the village, and then the entire crowd fled incontinently, pursued 
by the angiw Irish women and their escorts, in reserve. The infuriated women 
did not stop chasing the would-be invaders until they reached Merrimack 
street when their breath and ammunition gave out, and they were forced to 
return to the Acre. But the battle of Stone bridge leading to the Irish camp, 
was won. And won through the impetuosity and initiative of the Irish girls 
and women of the Paddy Cam]) lands! 

******** 

And the first St. Patrick's wooden church, which the above bigots set 
out to destroy, was dedicated with unusual ceremonies on Sunday, July 3rd 
following, (1831). Through the greatest good Luck, the writer ran across a 
newspaper item, describing the ceremonies of dedication, in a bound vol 
ume of the issues of the "United States Catholic Miscellany," a weekly 
Catholic newspaper printed in Charlestown, S. C, that year. In the issue of 
the "Miscellany" for July 23, 1831, was the account, graced with the follow- 
ing headline: 



•CATHOLIC CHURCH AT LOWELL. 

St. Patrick, was dedicated on 
•i. [ Fenwiek to the 
God. The building i- of wood; its strucl 

irmounted by a large 

be eye 

.1 convicl ion of neatness and 

r. As a l)ii i id 

2 town of Low- 

mtribul ion to the forina- 

he place. The eongre- 

R 1. tfahoi , consists of 

nearly a thousand sculs. . that were 

o 2 and .'! i liousand per- 

100 <if the congregation 

e [>re.senl on this occasion. To 

•dral choir, for their efficient 

Rev. Mr. Mahony celebrated mass) 

k\ from 2nd Book of Chronicles 

\ crowded : the day 

ip gave 

: l:i' A at 4 o 'clock, and. 

externie heat of the forenoon, 
candidates 
' rat ion, he 
language. 

dep irl inent of 

Dedication and at- 

to be a happy day to all 

ipportunil ■ on a 

the happii of her 

cendants of the Irish pion- 
ns in 1831. But the i 
i 1 builders and lalx 
I : i ient habita- 

a part of am 

ement. In 

copied an account 

I printed in the 

;. ., of how the 



"In the suburbs (!) of Lowell, within a few rods of the canals, is a 

settlement, called by some, New Dublin, which occupies rather mure 
than an acre of ground. It contains a population of not far from 500 
Irish, who dwell in about 100 cabins, from 7 to Hi feet in height, built 
of slabs and rough boards: a fire-place made of stones, in one end, 
topped out with two or three llour barrels or lime casks. In a central 
situation, is the school house, built in the same style of the dwelling- 
houses, turfed up to the eaves with a window in one end, and small 
holes in two sides for the admission of air and light. In this room are 
collected together perhaps 150 children!" — (Portsmouth, X. 11. "Jour- 
nal.") 
In connection witli this interesting account of the first rude [rish 

habitations in the "Acre," there is the following note from the Lowell school 

report for 1838: 



"A general interest is manifested in the prosperous condition of our 
Irish schools. They now consist of two Grammar and three Primary 
schools, kept by four male and two female teachers. The whole num- 
ber of pupils reported as having attended these schools more or less, 
during the year, is seven hundred and fifty-two. Most of these prob- 
ably attended three months at least; the average number of pupils 
connected with the schools at once, is 435, and the average daily at- 
tendance amounts to 342. There has been an increase this year [1S38] 
of one hundred and twenty-two in the average number, and 83 in daily 
attendance. It may be seen, to a reference to the tabular summary, 
that the attendance has been quite as good (in proportion to the aver- 
age number) as any of our public schools. Irish pupils are not ex- 
cluded from the other public schools, to which convenience of loca- 
tion and requisite attainments may entitle them to lie admitted. They 
have access to the High school on equal conditions with others, ami 
more or less, will be found in the various schools of every rank in the 
citv." 



ADDENDA 



ABSTRACT OF A DEED OF LAND FROM KIRK BOOTT, ESQ., TO 

BISHOP FENWICK FOR THE FIRST CATHOLIC CHURCH (ST. 

PATRICK'S) 1830. 

"In consideration ol -i paid l>\ Right Reverend Benedict Penwick, 
p ol' Boston, - pi ol' which 1- acknowledged, the Props, of the 

Locks and do unit claim . . unto Bishop Penwick, of Boston, his 

successors and assigns, a certain parcel of land containing 8140 square feet 
situate near a new canal called the Western canal. . . Provided "thai 
said granted premises shall never be used, occupied, or improved for any 
purpose than for Public Worship and private exercises of devotion con- 
nected therewith; and for schools, and for such other public uses as are usu- 
ally permitted in Public Meeting houses within this Commonwealth; and 
also thai said described premises shall not, at any time hereafter. For a longer 
term than two years, remain destitute of a decent and proper edifice or build- 
ing for Public Religious Worship. ... In witness thereof, the said Locks 
and < ■ mipany by Kirk Boott, their treasurer, have affixed their seal, 

etc., this fourth day of September, in the year of our Lord, eighteen hundred 
hirly. This conveyance is made by order of the Directors of the said 
(tested by the signatures of a majority of their board: 

KIRK BOOTT. Treas. 
Signed in the presence of these witnesses, P.T.JACKSON, 

MM! I. ABBOTT, J. A. LOWELL, 

• lolIX ROLLINS. \. APPLETON, 

HENRY CABOT, 
KIRK BOOTT, Directors." 
This deed was recorded at Cambridge, January LMi, L831. 

( Middlesex ( 'oiinly deeds.) 

By a deed, dated the '-IvA of June, 1835, another parcel of land, contain- 
ing L'ss ! mi feel was transferred from the Locks and Canals Company to 
i' Penwick on the condition "that the premises shall never be used for 
any n than for Public Worship and private exercises of devotion 

or schools, and such oilier purposes as are usually 

in Public Mcciinji houses within this Commonwealth, etc." This 

tract bordered on "the Northeast corner of land (conveyed by the company 

to Bishop Penwick in IS.'M)) thence to land owned l>v Klisha Puller el al., 

thence to land of John L. Sheafe; thence b\ wa\ of Penwick street to point of 

lung. " (Midi mnt\ deeds.) 

A pari of Mm- land is now used by the Sisters of Notre Dame for school 

and academy purj This t]f<t\ was signed b\ Henry Cabot Patrick 

Trac\ Jackson, Kirk Boott, John A. Lowell, Directors, and by Kirk Boott as 
irer. 



MEMORABLE HISTORICAL DATES OF IRISH CATHOLIC 

PIONEERS. 

T822, April 6 — Hugh Cummiskey leads first thirty Irish laborers into East 
Chelmsford to start work widening and building the Pawtueket canal 
and its arteries. 

1828 — "Acre" settlement firmly established. 

1828, Oct. 28 — Bishop Fenwick visits Lowell for the first time. Religious ser- 
vices were held on the site of the present Green school. Four hundred 
Irish Catholics employed in the mills and as laborers in the town at this 
period. 

1828-1830— Prominent Irishmen in town were Hugh Cummiskey, Patrick 
Powers, Patrick McManus, Nicholas Fitzpatrick, John Green (gardener 
for K. Boott) and Mrs. Winters, an Irishwoman employed as a house- 
keeper for Kirk Boott, Esq. 

182!) — First Irish school started at the corner of Jefferson and Lowell (now 
Market) streets. 

1830, July — Frame wooden building, 70x40 feet projected for a Catholic 
church. 

1830, 4th Sept. — Deed, conveying lot of land for the building of the new 
church signed by Kirk Boott and directors of the Locks and Canals 
Company. Land given free to Bishop Benedict Fenwick by Boott and 
the directors of the company. The suggestion for giving land for a 
church made by Mrs. Winters, Boott 's housekeeper. • 

1831, July 3— First Catholic church (St. Patrick's) dedicated by Bishop Fen- 

wick of Boston assisted by Vicar-General Thomas O 'Flaherty, D- D., of 
Boston, Rev. John Mahony, the first regular pastor, and 100 mem- 
bers of the Cathedral congregation of Boston, who journeyed from 
Boston to be present. Twenty-five members of the Cathedral choir, 
Mr. Mallet at the organ, also sang selections from Haydn, Mozart and 
! Lambilotte at the dedicatory mass. Sermon preached by Fr. O 'Flaher- 
ty. Vespers celebrated by the bishop in the afternoon at 4 and the 
bishop confirmed 39 candidates. Bishop Fenwick and Father O 'Flaher- 
ty journeyed over the road from Boston the day before the dedication 
in a carryall, and lodged that night at the Stone house (now the Ayer 
■--, Home) at the head of Fletcher street on Pawtueket street. In connec- 
tion with the musical part of the dedicatory observance the next day, 
Mr. John McEvoy, in a letter to Charles Cowley, Esq., the Lowell his- 
torian, stated that "Miss Catharine Hogan, Mr. Edward Kitts and a 
Mr. Hector assisted the Boston singers at the mass and at the musical 
vespers." 

1831 — Children of Irish parishioners attend school in the basement of the 
new wooden church on Adams street. 

1832— Father Mahony builds a priest 's house next to the church on Fenwick 
street. Here Father Peter Connolly and Rev. Fr. Curtin lodged when 
they rested from their missionary journeys and when they were as- 
signed by the bishop to assist Father Mahony as pastor. 

1835 — Father Curtin came to Lowell and stayed a short time assisting 
Father Mahony. He was succeeded by Father Peter Connolly who, 
under Fr. Mahony 's direction, built two wings to the new wooden 
church. 7 

1837 — Fr. J. T. McDermott succeeds Fr. Mahony as pastor. 

1839 — -Rev. James Conway, Fr. McDermott 's assistant, canvasses among the 



Irish Catholics who lived around Green street and Chapel Hill for funds 
for the election of a new church. 
1N11. Aug, Laud secured on the corner oi' (jorhain and Appleton streets for 

the erection of a new church. 
LS42, Oct. It; St. Peter's church dedicated. Rev. James Conway, tirst pastor. 
1842- Prominent Irish Catholics at this period wen' Hugh Cummiskey, Owen 
.M. Donahoe, who kept the Exchange coffee house on Lowell street, John 
Quinn, the tailor; Hugh McEvoy, the tailor; Charles M. Short, real es- 
tate agent; Patrick Moran, dry goods dealer; Peter McDermott, Irish 
schoolmaster, brother of Pr. McDermott; Michael McDonough, dealer 
in dry goods; Nicholas W. Ryan, dealer in crockery and glassware; 
Maguire and Cassidy, dry goods ;, John O'Connor, glazier and painter; 
James Egan, who taught in the Mann school, later a prominent lawyer 
in Boston; Daniel Mcllroy, another Irish schoolmaster who achieved 
fame a-; a lawyer in Boston; Stephen Castles, real estate dealer. 
1844-1846 Cornelius Nolan superintends the erection of a portion of the 

new canal. 
L847 Rev. J. T. McDermott purchases the Baptist meeting-house on Suffolk 
street, near Market (now the site of St. Patrick's school) and calls it 
Si .Man 's church. 
1854, Oct.- St. Patrick's lirst stone church dedicated. 

INTERESTING EVENTS OF 1832. 
Tn those days, the progress of the Little Irish Catholic community on 
the shores of the Merrimack was watched with a lively interest by the Cath- 
olics of Boston, and news of important events was duly chronicled by the 
"United States Catholic Intelligencer," which, at that time, was the official 
newspaper of the diocese, just as today, the "Pilot" reports official happen- 
ings of the archdiocese. The "Intelligencer" for dune 1. 1832, reported this 
interesting happening in Lowell: 

"We are glad to find that the Catholics of Lowell have purchased an 
acre and a half of land for a burial ground, about one mile from that 
thriving town, on the Boston road — which will save them, in the future, 
the great inconvenience and expense of removing their dead either to 
South Boston or Bunker Hill graveyard. 

"We stated in our last number that they [the Catholics of Lowell] 
bought a pieee of land in Lowell for the erection of a schoolhouse. 
That piece, we have been since informed, has been generously given to 
them by the Manufacturing Company (Merrimack Company) through 
tin- agency of the worthy Kirk Boott, Esq. 

"The Rev. Mr. Conoly will celebrate Mass at Lowell on Sunday next." 
Hire, indeed, are interesting fragments of history, never before 
printed in hook form, which will jrive a sidelight on the progress of the Irish 
in the new town. The burial ground referred to above is now known as Yard 
1. (the oldest part of St. Patrick's cemetery.) One can see. from the date of 
the notice, that the ground had been used tor interments since 1832. Previous 
to this year, the remains of the pioneer Catholics were brought over the road 
to either St. Amrustine's cemetery in South Boston or the little yard in 
Charlestown. under the shadow of Bunker Hill monument. Denis Crowley, 
the father of the late Hon. Jeremiah Crowley. Esq., usually accompanied the 
remains of the early pioneers to Boston. The school house land referred to 
above 19 now occupied by Notre Dame academy. 

The "Intelligencer." for May 25, 1832, had tins interesting bit re- 



garding the land for this school house, and also land for a parochial resi- 
dence : 

"We are informed that, through the exertion of the Rev. J. Mahony, 
the worthy pastor of the Catholic church at Lowell, and the spirited 
and successful efforts of his congregation, a lot of land has been pur- 
chased for the erection of a parochial house, 30 feet front and 53 feet 
deep, and that they have bought an additional piece of ground, 33 by 84 
feet, for a school house in front of their beautiful little church, which 
is an ornament to what may be called, the Manchester of New England. 
. . . It must have been, as it really was, a most gratifying sight to 
the Catholic clergyman, who officiated on the 20th inst. in the Rev. Mr. 
Mahony 's church, to behold a number of our Protestant brethren pres- 
ent. They manifested most respectful attention to every word that 
had been uttered by the Clergyman at the 8, 10 and 2 o'clock 
services of that day. Although it had been distinctly announced at 10 
o'clock that a special meeting of the Catholics was required at 2, yet 
such were the numbers of Protestants who assembled on this occasion, 
that it was a pity to send the good people away hungry. Several ar- 
ticles of our Holy Faith, and a rapid sketch and justification of our 
ceremonies concluded the services." 

The clergyman who officiated in place of Father Mahony on this par- 
ticular Sunday was Very Rev. Thomas O 'Flaherty, one of the most distin- 
guished pulpit orators and disputators of his time. While this learned priest 
was pastor of old St. Mary's in Boston, he effectively silenced the Know- 
nothing arguments of one Rev. Lyman Beecher, by a series of argumentative 
sermons and lectures— some of which were published later — and which, even 
today, are referred to by priests and laymen for material to offset ill-founded 
assertions of bigoted unbelievers. 

HUGH CUMMISKEY: FIRST DISTINGUISHED IRISHMAN. 

Hugh Cummiskey, after a long life of usefulness, died in Lowell on 
the 12th of December, 1871, aged 82, at his home on Adams street on the 
same land, where, nearly fifty years before, the first Irish pitched their camp 
when they came, under his leadership to build and repair the canals. The 
Lowell "Courier" of Dec. 14, 1871, had the following account of his life and 
death : 

"Mr. Cummiskey was born in Dromore, county Tyrone, Ireland. He 
came to this country in 1817. At the founding of Lowell, he was em- 
ployed to enlarge the old Pawtucket canal which, up to that time, had 
been used only for passing rafts of lumber round the falls. He took 
the first contract and walked up from Charlestown to Chelmsford, now 
Lowell, in April, 1822, with thirty men to commence the work. His 
job being finished that fall, he returned to Charlestown where he re- 
mained until 1828 when he came back to Lowell, and resumed con- 
tracting for jobs of excavating about the canals and mills which he 
carried on extensively until prevented by the infirmities of age. In 
addition to the Lowell contracts he also took contracts at Manchester, 
(N. H.) and Lawrence. Mr. Cummiskey has always borne an excellent 
character and been highly esteemed both by his own countrymen and 
others. He leaves a widow, to whom he was married in 1821 and five 
daughters, two of whom are nuns; two others have been teachers in 
our public schools." 



IRISHMEN WHO PAID POLL-TAXES IN LOWELL BETWEEN 

1826 AND 1830. 



1826 
Green, John 
<'ii rr. Joseph 
Hardy, Timothy 
II. James 
UeGee, Thomas 
Ryan, Thomas 
Ryan, Roger, 

''A ,.Di 

Smith. Daniel 
1827 
John 

Thomas 

. John 
I >\vennei] i Donnell I Jas. 
William 

William 
Martin 
Thomas 

[ugh 
John 
tell, ./allies 
Moore, Thomas 
Powers; William 
i rles 

William 

1828 
■Inn, ( Brogan ) John 
Brogan, James 

i 'i homas 
Burke, John 
C'arrj Joseph 
Cox, John 

ii. .lames 
. .lames 
- Joseph 

i lark, .lames 

Cummings, John 
Collins, Timothy 

''"(.Is, John, 

Da 
Clark, Tho 

John 
herty, Daniel 
I Hvinnell, (O'Doni • 

Edmund 

■ feorge 

Michael 

John 
Gawn, .John 
n-k 



< tetines i Mel luinness > 
Jona. 

Hill, Daniel 
Hale, Burns 
Hunt, Martin 
Holland, Jeft'rs I ?) 
Joyce, Stephen 
Killick, Thomas 
Kelley, Daniel 
Kelley, ( leorge i ? i 
Kendrick, John 

John 
Mitchell, James 
Thomas 
ing, 1 1 miel 

ham, James i ?) 
McXelley, James 

I'aton, Ten 
Murphy, John 

I, William ( ?) 
or, John 
I 'i \ ne, James 
Ryan, Roger 

Smith, James and Simon 
Sullivan, James 
Wood, John & Wm. ( ?) 

1829 
Alexander, John 
Mowers, John < ?) 
Burke. John 

Barnes, I Burns) Charles 
Blake. John ( ?) 
Byrne, William 
Burgan, < Brogan) Peter 
Burgan (Brogan) Joseph 
Burns. William 
Brai.lv. John 
Brenan, James 
i 'arliiMi. Stephen i " I 
(i 'a.-e\ i John 

< 'ummings, John 

< 'OX, John 

(Crowley) Thos 
Ja mes i ?) 
Campbell, James 

. Joseph 

Eiichard < ? i 

< 'ampbell, John 

< 'row dius 

John 
h, l >r. R. (?) 
Thomas 
Doran. Mark 

Daniel 
Buff, II 



■ 

I 'a Irak 
Driseoll. Thomas 
Dwinnell i I >onnell > Jere. 
I »ora a. Edmund 
Doran, John 
Downie, William 
Drummond, John (?) 
Ewing, George ( ?) 
England, Michael 
\:-.\ ing, John 
E iwright, Michael 
Ferguson, Daniel i ? | 
lord. John L. 
Fritzpatrick, Nicholas 
Pord, Timothy 
Graham, John i ? i 
Gannon, Michael 
Cannon, John 
Harrington, John 
Hardy, (McCarty) 

Timol hy 
Holland, John (?) 
Hartley, I 'ornelius 
i low . Thomas < ?) 
Ili'u kson. ( Hickson) Dan 
Haviland. Patrick 

i >avid 
McKee, James i ?) 

I >aniel < v i 
Kelley, David 
I .j on, John 
Leacy, Denis 
Lenox, Thomas ( ?) 
Lavy, Daniel 
MeXamara, George 
Mellen, Henry 
Moore, Thomas 
McKeiina, John 
McCormack, Hugh 
McCormack, John 
McLaughlin, Terence 
Murphy, John 
Martin, John 

McGarvia i Mi Garvey, 

John 

Mara. Thomas 
Owen 

O'Brien, Jacob (James'.') 
O'Brien, Patrick 
Pearse. 

I 'owers 
Smith. 



lames 
Peter 

James 

Trull. (Tyrell?) 

Winn. Joseph 

Warren, Charles 

White, Daniel 

Williams. Daniel and 
Tho . (?) 

W"eli h, Thomas 



Pete 



(?) 



LOCATION OF FIRST IRISH SCHOOL. 

The first Irish school, so-called, was located al the corner of Jefferson 
and Lowell streets in the upper floor of what is now a Greek grocery store. 
For a long time previous to the coming of the Greeks to .Market street, this 
location was occupied by the Savage Brothers, grocers. Miss Sarah Smith, who was 
90 years old on May (i, 1920, went to school in the early days, in the upper 
floor of this building. She remembers Schoolmaster Byrne who was of a 
choleric temperament, but who succeeded in teaching the [rish boys and girls 
of the 30 's their three R's in a thorough manner. 

In a report from the School Committee of the town at a town meeting 
in April, 1831, Rev. Theodore Edson, the chairman, stated: 

"That a school for the Irish Children has been kept about two years," 
which would bring the first school back to 1829. When Father Mahony 
came to the town on his monthly missionary visits, he never left the "Acre" 
without calling on the Irish children in the school at the corner of Jefferson 
and Lowell streets. At about this period, there was also a school on one of 
the upper floors of Barnes' "Folly," which was the nickname of a large stone 
and brick building which still stands today near the corner of Suffolk and 
Merrimack streets. The children of the Irish pioneers were also taught in 
the basement of the old wooden church, which stood on the site of the present 
St. Patrick's. Here, Fathers Mahony, Curtin and Connolly took turns in ac- 
quainting the Catholic youth with the three R's and still a fourth R — Religion 
— which loomed up large in importance in the first curriculum of studies. 

Some of the early Irish Catholic teachers who received some of the 
town's money for the support of the Irish schools were: Patrick Collins, 
master of No. 5 Grammar school; Richard Walsh, who afterwards conducted 
the first Catholic book store and Irish steamship agency at the corner of Mar- 
ket and Worthen streets; Daniel Mcllroy, who afterwards became a distin- 
guished lawyer in Boston; Peter McDermott, brother of Rev. Jacob McDer- 
mott, the first pastor of St. Mary's; Miss Mary Ann Stanton, who taught 
primary grades in the basement of St. Patrick's, 1837; Catharine A. Hogan. 
James Egan, Esq., Jane U. Danahey, Catharine O'Callaghan, J. W. Walsh, 
Ann Cummiskey, Martin Fitzpatrick and others. 

Thus, one sees in a few pages, the unexampled difficulties 
that our Irish forefathers had to experience. No town or city in the 
history of the United States can show such marvelous progress from 
such humble beginnings; no race can out do the Irish in their wonderful 
adaptitude to American institutions. The accomplishments of Lowell's 
Irish pioneers and their descendants are indeed an epic prose poem in 
American history. Those of their descendants who read these lines to- 
day have good reason to be proud of the humble beginnings and the 
later achievements of their forefathers. 



IRISH PIONEERS OF LOWELL 

[ROM THE LOWELL DIRECTORY OF 1835. 



Abbn h. for house; h. for hoards: (?) indicates douhl whether person 

was Irish: W. I., We I 



Thomas, h Penw iek si. 

', dyer, h Lowell st. I Market st.) 
Barnes, Mary Ann, hoarding-house, :.'<> Suffolk Corn 
Barry, I Jridget, widow, h Ken . 
Barry, James, housewright, h Lowell 
Barry, Rev. William, hds. al Moses Shattuck's 
Bolton, John, laborer, h Lawrence st., near Massic l 
Boughen, Thomas, clerk at Dean and si:. 

1 toyes, I >aniel, a i i ' irp>-i fact try, h Jefl 

Braidy. James, at Carpet factory h Middle si. 
I Jurk, Richard, at i. i u ory, h \\ ishingto 

Burns, Edward, laborer, Penwick si. 
Burn . Edward, wine cellar, Merrimac si. 
Burns, Michael, cordwainer, Green st. 
I'.'irn-, Patrick, dye house, hds. M. Burns' 
I turns, Patrick, 
Burns, Thomas, carpet 
Butler, James a borer, Lowell st. 

Byrns, John .)., merchant tailor, Merrimack st., hds. at Mrs. Smith's 
P ''iii: ell's, I >.. La vvrem e si. 

, Henry, cordwainer, at < >. Whinny's 
Campbell, James, constable, Penwick st., also hoarding-house 
i 'ampbell, James, overseer l [a m. < !orp 
Campbell, John, al carpet factory, h Lowell 
Campbell, Philip, labon r, al John B. Ray's 
i 'a mpbell, Micha ■ ■-. h Pi nwiek 

Pi watchman I lam. Corp- hds. 20 Ham. Corp. 

Cannon, James, tailor, l>ds. Miss Putnam's, Appleton st. 

ey, lames, laborer, Chapel Hill 
Carney, John, Merr'k. Corp., hds. Merr'k. 
Carney, Joseph, laborer, mar Lawrence s't. 
Carney, Mary, li Merr'k. sq. 
( 'an-. Jerem iah, hds. 9 I .aw. I '■ 
Carr, John, hoarding-house, 9 Law, ( '< >r; >. 
( 'ase, Patrick, h Lowell st 
i ' : -<■. John, la borer, Lowell st. 
< ly, Bernard, h Penwick st . 

t, bh achery Merr'k., h Penwick 
Cater, Denis, grocer, Gorham st. h Gorham 
Caughlin, James, laborer, Penwick st. 
i. Ja mes, h Lowell st. 
Michael, housewi U v Palls 

room, Merr'k. st. 
('lark. Peti ai Samml Ames' 

i 'ochva a. John, h 1 Joston Rd. mar II 
i 'oehran M ichael, h Penwick 

Coffins, .Mary, hoarding house, Suffolk so., near Merr'k. 

. Penw ick 
ii 43 Mi rr'k. 
Comerford, Garret, clerk at Cummiskey's, Merr'k. st. 

:. Patrick, li Green st. 
Conden, William, h Lowell st. 



Conner, Caroline, widow, boarding-house, 10 Merr'k. Corp. 

Conner, Edward, laborer, h Gi 

Conner, .Jewell, housewright, al Mrs. Bean's, Appleton st. 

Coriiff, Martin, laborer, h Lowell at., at Cummisky's 

Conely, Michael, h Lowell st. 

Conley, Edward, tailor, at Philip T. White's 

Conley, Mary, widow, h rear Merr'k. 

Conley, Peter, h LoweM st., Hilliard's block 

Conlin, Michael, dry goods, it Merr'k. st., bds. al American Ho 

Council, Daniel, \V. I. kimhIs, Lowell si., h sami 

Connell, Matthew, machin< shop, h Lowell 

Connell, Timothy, laborer, li rear Lowell 

Connell, Mrs., h Fenwick 

Connell, Thomas ()., at factory, h Fenwick 

Connolly, Rev. Peter, ai Rev. Mr. Mahony's 

Cooley, George, tailor, h Fenwick st. 

Coolian, Patrick, laborer, Fenwick st. 

Cor.bin, William, Merr'k. Cor])., h Clark's. Lowell st. 

Corokland, James, laborer, h Fenwick 

Corren, Thomas, iaborer, h Winter st. 

Corrigan, Mathew, bds. al Egan's, Lowell st. 

Coughlin, Morris, h Fenwick st. 

Cox, John, machinist, h Suffolk 

Crane, John, laborer, h Fenwick 

Cronan, Denis, clerk at Lean & Short's 

Crowden, Patrick, mason, h Chelmsford old road 

Crowley, Bartholomew, h Fenwick 

Crowley, Cornelius, bds. at T. Ford's 

Crowley, Patrick, h Lowell st., near Fitzpatrick's 

Cummiskey, Eugene, h Merr'k. .st. 

Cummiskey, Hugh, W. I. goods, Merr'k. st. 

Cunningham, Thomas, Ham. Corp. 

Curtin, Rev. J. J., (St. Patrick's church) h Fenwick, Rev. Mr. Mahony's 

Curin, Francis, tailor, White's, Central st. 

Currey, Michael, blue dyer, at Cumm'iskey's 

Dailey, Cornelius, h Suffolk at w.ir Baptist meeting-house 

Dailey, Denis, at Merr'k. Corp., h Lowell 

Dailey, Francis, bds. at Young's 

Da land, Thomas, h Fenwick 

Dempsey. Mary, widow, h Merr'k. sq. 

Deray, John, bds. at Banacan's 

Deverlin, John, h Cross st., near Adam-. 

Devlin, Francis, bds. at Gleason's, Jefferson st. 

Devlin, John, bds. at Banagin's 

Devoy, Mary, bds. Gleason's, Jefferson st. 

Divland, James, bds. Gannon's 

Divine, John, h Pine st., near Middlesex 

Doane, Edward (?) stone-layer, h Lowell st. 

Donnahue, James, bds. at M. Davis's 

Donnahoe, Jeremiah, h near Adams st. 

Donnahoe, John, laborer, h Fenwick 

Dolton, Chrisjtopher, al factory, h Winter 

Donavan, Thomas, bds. at B. Egan's, Lowell 

Donavan, Timothy, h Fenwick 

Dorry, Luke, laborer, Fenwick 

Downie. Hugh, dyer. Carpet, h 11 Carpet 

Downie, John, 9 Carpet 

Doyle, Bryan, laborer, h Lowell si., long block 

Doyle. Hugh, carpet weaver, h 1!» Carpet 

Doyle, Lawrence, laborer, bds. John Tool's 

Doyle, Michael, grocer. Fenwick, h same 

Doyle, Patrick, bds. at M. Do 

Duff, James, calico printer, h Fenwick 

Duff, William, clerk, Conliri's, 44 Merr'k. 

Duffey, Felix, h Merr'k. st. 

D'iffey, Thomas, laborer, h Lowell st. 

Dunnaman, (Donovan) Mrs., h Fenwick 

Dunn, P.ryan, carpet weaver, lids, in Carpel blocks 

Eagan, Barney, h Lowell (laborer) 

Earley, Martin, h Fenwick 

Earley, Michael, h Fenwick 

EmmcM, John, engraver, bds. J. Du d 

Enwright, Michael, laborer h Lowell 

Ewing, Samuel, Ids. .Mrs. Crolh's, Fenwick st. 

Faray, Aaidrew, laborer, Fenwick 

Fann'on, Michael, near Carpet, h Central 

Farley, Andrew, laborer, Fenwick st. 



Farrill, John, h Gorham. 

Farrell, Edward, laborer, 1, Gorham. 

Pay, Denis, confectioner, east end Town House 

Fitzgerald, Richard, h rear Suffolk sq. 

Fitzpatrick, Nicholas, h Lowell 

Fitzpatrick, Thomas, li back soap works, Lawrence st. 

Fitzsimmons, Bryan, laborer, I. owe]] st., Kay's 

■' in Timot hy, h Penwick 
Plud, Patrick, carpel weaver, bds. 22 Carpet 
Plynn, Michael, 1: Penwick 
Plynn, .John, cordwainer, Lowell st. 
Ford, I',. watchman Merr'k. Corp., bds. til 

Ford, Timothy, laborer, h Suffolk st., near Baptist meeting-house 
Ford, William, blacksmith, bds. Bacon's, Chapel hill 
Pox, Conroy, at Suffolk Corp., lids. 10 
Gallahur, Bernard, h Lowell 

Gallahur, (Gallagher) Owen, at Hani. Corp., h Lowell 
Gallagher, - — , h Middle st. 
Cannon, Hugh, lids. iToung's, Penwick st. 
Gannon, John, bar-room Merr'k. sq. 
Gardman, Anthony, bds. Eagan's, Lowell st. 
Garretty, Michael, bds. I'. Baniean's 

Garthy, (Garrity) Bartholomew, at dye house, near Lawrence st. 
Garthy, James, Ham. Corp., h North st. 
Garvey, Marcus, laborer, bds. 1 >. Connell's, Lowell st. 
(lii'v, John, cordwainer, h Fenwick st. 
Gary, Thomas, h Fenwick st. 
Garthy, Patrick, h North st.. near Lawrence 
G.i tely, John, h Low ell st. 
Gill, John, overseer. Ham. Corp., bds. 30 
Gilday, Patrick, mason, bds. Ray's, Appleton st. 
Givings, John, h Fenwick st. 
Gleason, Daniel, boarding-house, Jeffers'on st. 
Gleason, William, cordwainer. bds. Marden's 
' li rmeley, Mark, laborer, h Lowell st. 
Gormley, Martin, laborer, h Lowell 
Goodwin, Bryan, bds. 5 Tremont Corp. 
Gorman, John, laborer, h Lowell 
Grace, Daniel, h Mdx. Corp., bds. Colcord's 

Gray, William, (Boston & Lowell baggage wagon) h near Chapel 
Griffin, John, at cotton batting factory, h Washington 
Griffin, John, stonelayer, h guard locks 
Crimes, Elizabeth, h Lowell 

Crimes, John, at .Merr'k. dye house, h 12 Prince 
Haines, Mary, widow, boarding-house, 4 Merr'k. Corp., cor. Dutton 
Haley, Patrick, laborer, bds. John Tool's 
Hancock'. John, innholder, Union house, Washington sit. 
Hand, Thomas, Ham. Corp., bds. J. McCarthy's, Green st. 
Harris, James ( ?) watchman, lids. 1 Carpet blocks 
Harris, Peter, boarding- house, Merr'k. Corp., cor. Suffolk sq, 
Harris, Win., boatman, h 25 Ham. Corp. 
llni. David, ( .' ) yeoman, h Chelmsford road 
Hart, Elizabeth, tailoress, Fayette st. 

■ ;. Patrick, I lam. ( 'orp., bds. 47 
Haviland, Patrick, clerk, Fitzpatrick's, Lowell st. 
Hayes, John M., at Calvin Fifield's 

, William, repair shop, bds-. Mrs. Morrill's 
ind, Richard, blacksmith, h Lowell, Fitzpatrick's bldg. 
Ilealey, Natl. ( ?) school master, 3rd grammar school, h cor. Wallace ami School 
Henry, John C, physician, 12 Merr'k. 

I [enry, M tchael, laborer. Cow ell st. 

Howes, Humphrey, overseer Carpet, h do 

i. Thomas, at factory, bds. Mongan's, Green st. 
Hines, Thomas, hat and cap store, (*. Merr'k., bds. American house 

Edward, laborer, h Lowell 
Holland. John, h Chapel hill, Fletcher's court 
Holland, Join W., overseer. Merr'k., h 35. 
les, John, Ham. Corp., bds. Mongan's 
hes, John R., machinist, Fenwick st. 
i iwen, laborer, h rear Lowell 
Peter, la borer, h Green 
on, John, (?) bds. Steven's, Lewis st. 
on, Sarah, widow, boarding-house, Carpel 
Jones, Andrew ( '.' ) bricklayer, bds. Mrs. Lean's 

Martin, Merr'k. Corp., 20 Ham. 
Jorry, John, h Fenwick 

aborer, h avenue, betw. Kurd and Creen 



Kalahari, Thomas, at Merr'k. Corp., bds. Ducker's, Merr'k. sq. 

Kean, Philip, tailor at Joel Davis'. Central St. 

Keating, James, dry goods, Merr'k. sq. 

Keating, Patrick, clerk, Dean & Short's 

Kelley, Andrew, carpi! weaver, h 19 Carpel blocks 

Kelley, John, stone mason, h Chape] 

Kelley, Denis, laborer, h Fenwick 

Kelley, John A., stageman, h Chapel 

Kelley, Morris, cordwainer, li Middle 

Kelley, William A., boots and shoes, Merr'k. st., Suffolk sq. 

Kelley, Wm. W., housewright, bds. T. Olapp's 

Kenedy, James, laborer, bds. I >. Connell's 

Kenedy, Timothy, bds. Doyle's 

Kenney, George, wheelwright, bds. .Mrs. Labart's 

Kenney, Lawrence, h Church st. 

King, Daniel, trader, h Merr'k. St., Merr'k. sq. 

Lamb, William, (?) painter, h near dm. meeting-house, Lamb's ct. 

Lanagan, Stephen, carpet weaver, h i:» Carpet 

Lang, Robert, (?) h 1!) Carpet, at carpel factory 

Lane, Owen, bds. Cyrus Johnson's 

Lane, Thos. W., bds. Lowell hotel 

Lane. Mrs., widow, 40 Ham. Corp. 

Lee, Michael, laborer, h Fenwick 

Leighton, Peter, hostler, Hadley's stable, h Jefferson 

Loughran, Peter, yeoman, h Lowell, long block 

Loughran, W'm., laborer, h Central 

Lynch, Joseph, clerk, I). & S. (Dean & Short's) 

Lynch, Patrick, laborer, factory yard, h Gorham 

Lynch, laborer, at Joshua Swan's 

Lynes, Daniel, h Fenwick st. 

Largan, James, h Fenwick st. 

Lawnell, Denis, housewright, rear Appleton st., near Stone meeting-house 

Leonard, Jeremiah, blacksmith, bds. MacAvoy's, Lowell 

Leonard, Thomas, lids. Mrs. P. Leonards 

Locklin, John, at factory, h Merr'k. st. 

Long, James, at factory, h Lowell 

Lord, Jeremiah, at factory, h Fenwick 

Loughran, John, laborer, h Church st. 

Loughran, Luke, bds. Wm. P. Sawyer's 

Loughran, Moses, stonelaver, h Church 

Magan, John, dyer, h Cross, near Lowell st. 

Magoran, John, dyer, h rear South st . 

Mahan, James, h Lowell st., near Central st. 

Mahan, Francis, laborer at Capt. J. Tapley's 

Mahan, Owen, h Fenwick 

Mahan, Patrick, laborer, h Lowell 

Mahan, Patrick, bds. at Conif's 

Mahony, Rev. John, h Fenwick st., near Catholic church 

Maloy, John, tailor and draper, Lewis st., bds. Murray's bldg. 

Mallon, John, h High 

Manahan, Mark, housewright, bds. .1. Page's, Merr'k. sip 

Mannice, John, at factory, bds. McCarthy's, Green st. 

Mannice, Patrick, laborer and fisherman, h Middle 

Mansfield, James, Merr'k. print wks., h Merr'k. 

Manning, William, (?) mason, h Water st., Crane's 

Martin, John, laborer, rear soap wks., near Lawrence st. 

Martin, John, laborer, h Fenwick 

McAloon, Edward, laborer, h Cross, d Mar. If,, Is?."), act. Tn; b CO. Tyrone 

McAloon, James, laborer, h Merr'k., d May 23, 1864, act. 72 

McAnnuna, Owen, h Lewis st. 

McAnuly, Michael, blue dyer, bds. Mrs. Mongan's 

McAnulty, Owen, at factory, h Middle 

McAvoy, John, h Fenwick 

McCaffrey, Patrick. W. I. goods, Hurd st., h near Catholic church 

McCaffrey, Peter, at factory, h Fenwick 

McCanelly, John, bds. Wm. Davies J 

McCann. Peter, at factory, h Fenwick 

MoCann, Thomas, at factory, h Hurd st. 

McCannan, P., h Fenwick 

McCanney, Francis, at Merr'k. print works, bds. McAvoy's 

McCanney, Mathew, h Fenwick 

Mi Carney, Thomas, Ham. Corp., h Washington 

McCarty, Denis, laborer, h Fenwick 

McCarty, John, cordwainer, h Green 

McCarty. Michael, mason, h Fenwick 

McCarthy, Denis, laborer, h Lowell st. 

McCarthy, Daniel, bds. Gleason's, Jeff st. 



McCarthy, - — h Fenwick 

McOlanning, John, carpet weaver, bds. 22 Capt. 

McOleary, Denis, laborer, h Fenwick 

MoCleary, Wm. T., millwright, bds. 5 Tremonl 

Pati ick, at bleachi ry house, bds. K. Hod; 

(McKenna) Pa trick, h rea r Merr'k. 
, William, a I Merr'k. < !orp., bds. 2 I 
I, Nicholas, h rea r La v\ fence st. 
I tobert, blacksmith, at .1. G. K it tredg< 



McClure, 

M'.'l'onna, 

Met !onihe 

Mc( l i - 

Mci 'ardy, 

M c( 'ormii 

Mel 'ormii 

Mci 'ormii 

.McCoy. I'm 

McCracklin, .linn 



I ';i)i holomew . a i factory, bds., 
I [ugh, at factory, h Fenwick 
Mary, widow, n Fenwick 

ding house, South 
tailor, 21 Opt. blks. 



Wm. Davis' 



McCabe, Owen, cordwainer, h Lowell 

McDaniel, Alex, bds. Eagan's, Lowell 

.M< I >« rmott, Thomas, at Lowell bleachery, h near bli 

Met Jarrah, Jami s, li Fenwick 

McGary, Jane, widow, li near soap works 

McGary, John, laborer, li near Lawrence st. 

McGinley, Francis, at Middx. Corp., h Gr 

McGindy, Daniel, carpel weaver, bds. :.'l Carpet 

ern, Barney, bds. Everett's, Lowell st 
Jli'i low in. Hugh, at Lowell bleachery 
McGuire, ( lharlcs, at factory, h .M 
McGuire. Francis, lids. .Mrs. Barry's, Lowell st. 
James, dye house, h 47 1 [am. ( !orp. 
Hugh, h Lowell st., d July LO, 1845, aet. S2 



•h< r\ 



McGuire 
McHugh 
Mcllrov, 
Mcllroy. 
Mclntire 
McKenh 
McLo 



onfi ii ioner, Merr'k. st., Merr'k 
Peter, h Fenwick 
William, bds. Doyle's 
■, John, machinist, bds 
in, i '.' i Philbrook, I'oiin 



7 DllttOU Swamp looks 

er. bds. Stevens' 



McLench, John, blacksmith, bds. 27 Law. Corp. 

ich, - - blacksmith, bds. Hatch's cellar, Merr'k 

McMahon, tailor, at Ager's, Centra] si. 

McMann, Patrick, laborer, h Lowell 
McMann, Thomas, bds. Davies' 

M'^Morrow, Charles, Mdx. Corp., h rear Appleton st. 
McMullin, Andrew, bds. 1 Trem. Corp. 
MeNulty, John, h Hurd st. 

McOsker, Owen, W. I. goods, Low-!! st.. h Lowell 
Mellen, John, overseer of watchmen al Tremont, 
Menneugh, Mathew, h Fenwick 
.Miles. Michael, at Merr'k. Corp. h Lowell 
.Miles, Thomas, tailor, h Massic falls 
Miller. Peter, carpet weaver, 22 Carpet 
Miiiheii, James, machinist, rear Lawren 
■i M. Fra n.i , Lowell ble ichery, bds. 
i ii. Mary, widow, li Gn 
>;, M ichaol, reed maker, h Green 
i. M orri: Ham. ( !orp., !i < }reen 
Moore. Henry, bds. Thos. Gowdy's 

.buries, bds. Mrs. Webster's, rear App 
I'alchman, Merr'k. < 'orp., 



Tremont 



near Massic falls 



near bleachery 



Moore, 

Moore, 

Monro, 



i 'orp., h 
. ('orp., 



e 1 O 1 1 St. 

i. 9 Merr'k. 
1 Worthen 
Is. 37 



. overseer, .Men 
William, watchman, I 

im, Carpet, bds. -I 
John, li Fenwick 
! ';i trick, h Fenwick 
:,. h Fenwick 
on, Stephen, at Whipple's powder mills 
Morrison. Mark S., at Tremont Corp. 

John i Bailey «V- M ) bds. i ey's 

John, tin] rker at David Da I 'Impel bil 

■ . pi tcr, ii Lowell 
Murphy, Bernard, boarding-house, Lowell st. 
Murphy, R bori bds. Kay's, A ppleton st. 

Murphy, Cornelius, carpet weaver, bds. Mrs. Grimi 
Murphj James, laborer, b rear Col. Fletcher's 

. John, laborer, h Fenwick 
Murpl borer, h Fenw 

edyer, li Lowell 
, John, bluedyer, h Lowell 
N;i ilor, Jam Lov 

P] p, li I 'enwick 
. William, at .Merr'k. Corp.. h Merr'k. sq. 



Noland, Moses, blacksmith, bds. Mongan's 

Norton, Henry, dry goods, 57 Merr'k: 

O'Brien, Catharine, widow, h Lowell 

O'Haran, Jeremiah, h Middle 

O'Neal, Matthew, laborer, h rear South 

Os'burn, Michael, (?) machine printer, h Fenwick 

Owens, James, carpet weaver h Lowell 

Palmer, Thomas, (?) tailor, bds. betw. Suffolk and Fenwick 

Pattin, Thomas, laborer, bds. Connif's 

Patrick, James, carpet weaver, h Washington 

Phelan, Charles, W. I. goods, Merr'k. sq. 

Powers, Patrick, h Merr'k. sq. (W. I. goods in co. with Phelan) 

Powers, Peter, mason, h Chapel Hill, near North 

Powers, Wm. B., variety store, Central, bds. P. Powers 

Prendergast, John, trader, h Gorham 

Queen, John, laborer, h Fenwick 

Quigley, Edward, W. I. goods, Merr'k. st, h Lowell 

Quigley, Hugh, h Lowell st., Hilliard's block 

Quinn, John, tailor, Perez Fuller's, Merr'k. sq. 

Qninn, William, Ham. Corp., h Green 

Ragan, John, Merr'k. Corp., h Fenwick 

Railley, (Riley) Bernard, W. I. goods, h Lowell 

Ray, John T., (?) teamster, h Lowell, near Adams 

Rayan, (Ryan), Richard, h Fenwick 

Raydon, Lawrence, dyer, h Cross st. 

Raymond, William, cordwainer, h Gorham 

Redman, Ham.' Corp., bds. 27 Ham. 

Reed, Martin, Trem. Corp., bds. 10 Suffolk 

Reed, Stephen, boarding-house, 2ti Suffolk 

Riley, Bernard, slater, h rear Lawrence, near soap works 

Riley, William, at Bleachery 

Riley. James, laborer, h Lowell (113 Market) 

Riley, Peter, laborer, h Fenwick 

Roberts, William, carpet weaver, h Lowell 

Robertson, John, h Fenwick 

Robinson, William, h Fenwick 

Rogers, Mark, housewright, bds. Mrs. Bean's 

Rogers, Stephen, housewright, bds. Mrs. Bean's 

Rogers, William, dyer, bds. 20 Carpet blocks 

Rawe, Richard, carpet weaver bds. 13 Trem. Corp. 

Ryan, Harvey ( ?) blacksmith, h Lowell 

Ryan, Nicholas, crockery and glassware, Merr'k. st. 

Ryan, Roger, mason, h High. bds. 22 Ham. Corp. 

Ryan, schoolmaster, bds. Mrs. Miner's 

Scally, bds. Mrs. Sparks' Fenwick st. 

Shanley, Michael, h Lowell st. (rear 117 Merr'k.) 

Shehan, Martin, h Lowell st. 

Sherden, Hugh, at factory, bds. Baniean's 

Sherden, Patrick, at Carpet factory, h Green 

Shields, Michael, laborer, h Fenwick (lived 23 Hanover, 1S61) 

Short, Edward, factory, bds. J. Campbell's 

Short, Charles M. (Dean & Short's) dry goods, Merr'k. st. 

Short, James, at Ham. Corn., h 48 

Slaven, Lawrence, at Lowell bleachery 

Slaven, Michael, h Lowell st. 

Slowey, Alexander, dyer, h Washington 

Smidy, Margaret, h Fenwick 

Smith, Andrew, h Water st., Evan's bldg. 

Smith, Daniel, bds. 23 Carpet 

Smith, Ellen, widow, h Fenwick 

Smith, Francis, carpenter, h Lowell 

Smith, Henry, watchman, h 15 Law. Corp. 

Smith, James, at bleachery, h Middle 

Smith, James, carpet weaver, h betw. Suffolk, and Fenwick, bds. Mrs. Smiths 

Lowell 
Smith, John, at bleachery house, h Lowell 
Smith. John, dry goods, opp. Suffolk- 
Smith, Owen, at Merr'k. Corp., h Lowell 
Smith, Patrick, bds. at Francis Smith's 
Smith, Richard, laborer, h Lowell, near Fenwick 
Smith, Sally, widow, nurse. Lowell, near Fenwick 
Smith, Thomas, at factory, Lowell 
Smith, Timothy, wheelwright, bds. T. Arnold's 
Starkev, William, Law. Cons. bds. 10 Suffolk 
Sullivan, Daniel, h Fenwick 
Sullivan. James, bds. Connell's 
Sullivan. Jeremiah, laborer, h Fenwick 



Sullivan, John, li Suffolk ?q. 

Sullivan, John, laborer, h Fenwick 

Sullivan, John, laborer, h Fenwick 

Sullivan. Patrick, h Fenwick 

Sweeney, John, laborer, bds. D. ('onnell's 

Symons, Mary, (?) boarding-house, 8 Appleton Corp. 

Tay, Sullivan, cordwainer, h North 

Tympany, Rose, widow, h Cross si., near Lowell 

Tenney, Patrick, bds. Everett's, Lawrence st. 

■tins, Patrick, dyer, Ham. Corp., h 47 
Tool, John, laborer, h Hurd st., near J. Lawrence's 
Torri!l, - it Merr'k. Corp., bds. 24 imtton 

(Tolly?) Jeremiah, laborer, Chapel hill 
Trainer, Catharine, widow, h Fenwick 

Trainer, bds. James Campbell's 

Trainer, Patrick, h Fenwick 

Tomolty, Charles, at Lowell bleachery, bds. McDermott's 

Tyning, Patrick, wool sorter, h Washington 

Wallace. John, laborer, bds. Ray's, Appleton 

Ward, James, baker, bds. T. Smith's, Lowell 

Wayland, John, laborer, h rear Lawrence st. 

Welch, John, laborer, h Fenwick 

Welch., John Hamilton, lids. Airs. Stetson's 

Welch, Joseph, trader, h Hurd st. 

\\'i lch, Mathew, at Midx. Corp., bds. Burrow's 

Welch, Thomas, h Lowell st. (long block) 

White. James, h Ken wick 

White. Mary, widow, h Fenwick 

White. John, h Warren st. 

White. John, at Ham. Corp., h North 

White, Philip T., merchant tailor, Central st., h Gorham 

White Stephen, stone layer, h South st. 

White. Thomas, h Fenwick 

White, Michael, h Fenwick 

Whitcomb, Patrick, (?) overseer Ham., bds. Cordon's 

Williams, Peter, at Walker's, Lewis st. 

Winn, John, machinist, h r>0 Dutton 

Winn, Moses < '.' ) at J. Mixer's harness shop 

Wise. Mary Ann. h Lowell, Hilliard's block 

Woods. John, h Fenwick 

Woods, Timothy, bds. 26 Suffolk Corp. 

Voting, Hugh, h Fenwick 

Young. Mary Ann. boarding-house, South 

Voting. Michael, h Fenwick 






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